Yunfeng Zhang
Machine Learning Software Engineer at Superhuman
New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYunfeng Zhang is a Machine Learning Software Engineer with a decade of experience building responsible, production-grade AI systems and MLOps infrastructure, currently advancing search, ranking, and RAG at Superhuman. He blends deep research pedigree—over 50 publications, 2,000+ citations, and 13 patent filings—with hands-on engineering leadership across startups and large tech (Twitter, IBM), where he built company-wide fairness tooling and evaluation pipelines. Known for translating fairness and interpretability research into scalable systems, he led the development of Twitter’s Fairness Evaluator and helped create IBM’s AI Fairness 360 and Explainability 360 toolkits. Yunfeng has repeatedly accelerated model training and robustness in production settings (2–10x improvements) and introduced survival modeling frameworks for product teams, showing a rare mix of academic rigor and measurable product impact. Based in New York with a PhD in Computer Science, he combines human-centered AI research roots with practical infrastructure delivery that embeds responsible ML into everyday workflows.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of OregonB.S. Information Science and Technology, B.S. Information Science and Technology at Beijing Normal University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (84)
discrimination10
nodejs10
css10
chrome10
r9
javascript9
language-translation9
html9
datasets9
http-client9
uncertainty9
machine-learning-models9
calibration9
estimate9
electron9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zywind/zywind.github.io
Apr 2021 - Feb 2022
A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:12 pushes, 9 branches in 10 months
responsive-jekyll-themeacademicscleanjekylljekyll-theme
zywind/node-sensortag
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 tag in 26 days
js-libti-sensortagnode-jsnodejssensortag
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